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Pictures and this week were creating concrete strategies and scenarios so they can picture what to do when they are up either way against these dynamics and if we Work Together this way and really name it. Sometimes kids with aspergers can do things that are off putting. I sat with a kid in a class that put his leg over class during the over the head during class and 17 years old and its off putting. We can own it and now what do we do about it . Its not distracting to everybody fine but how do we do it in a way were honest with everyone in the room and reaching out to each other appropriately...

Shift and in San Francisco we are proud of the work around the issue of tolerance but we look at it as prevention. We dont want to be responding to issues once they happen so we work very hard to build relationships that are truly centered around individuality in the schools so to be proactive we build these strong communities. We have conversations about our communities. Our balance score cards at every one of our schools developed and revises every year has a component talking about a safety Healthy Community in it. We talk about fair processes. We talk about having conversations in circles ...

Havent to the conversation today. Last is cheryl young and the chief executive director of gate path and oversees a large nonprofit in San Mateo County and focus on turning disabilities into possibilities and shes a wonderful addition to the panel and its an area that School Districts have to deal with in terms of special needs and what were talking about affects these children if not more than the other children so thank you cheryl. [applause] so we have a large panel and they can all tell you i sent them an email yesterday said you will have a brief time to say what you do, what your organiz...

Shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program through schools, through Police Department, through their churches and some of the behavior that we see in schools are behavior they are learning at home, so we try to address this through this project. We offer it all over Santa Clara County and in english and spanish and vietnamese and that is one example of what we do. A Second Initiative we are working to make happen is something called school Link Services where theres all of these different resources floating o...

There are probably more important and soft power is where you change the hearts and minds of people. Where you try to change cultures, try to change the norms in the community are and certainly in our office we devote significant resources to this. Just a couple of examples. We have something called the parent project, and i am very grateful in a time of really reduced funding our board of supervisors stepped up and provided funding for otherwise what was run on a shoe string out of our office, and its a program that teaches parents to be better parents and parents get referred this program th...